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R7000 sees USB 3.0 portable drive not 8TB external drive
This router has both a USB 2 and 3 ports. I plugged a USB 3.0 WD Passport 3 TB drive into the USB 3.0 port. The drive spins up and the indicator light goes on. This drive is formatted NTFS I plu...
I determined that neither of the large WD drives worked. I looked at the netgear support site for the R7000 (https://kb.netgear.com/18985/Will-my-USB-drive-work-with-ReadySHARE)
Based on this I tried the Seagate - Backup Plus Hub 8TB External USB 3.0 (SRD0PV1) Plugged it in and after a while readyshare found it and made it available.
I will use my WD drive as a backup for the shared drive as an extra precaution.
I used the 3.0 front facing USB port. I plan to see if the drive will also connect from the USB 2 port on the back.
Vine-Leaf wrote:
I think it does work with a 6 TB disk as I had one working earlier in the year.
That makes two reports of 6 TB working on ReadySHARE.
Can you remember what it was that worked for you?
ReadySHARE does fine here with a 4TB WD Elements.
Unfortunately, Netgear does not keep its own database up to date, so it is down to users to fill in the gaps.
While my 6 TB worked before it is not recognized now. At this point that drive is almost full. I am thinking that the Router / Readyshare initially examines the drive and produces some sort of index. I am not claiming to know anyting about how this works. I am making a guess based on evidence. When I was able to hook it up before, the drive had less than 4 TB on it. I am going to continue testing to find out if reducing the amount of storage used on the drive allows Readyshare to recognize the drive. If this is the case, then at least I will know the parameters needed to make an external drive work.
As an aside, I can hook two smaller drives on the two USB ports and both are recognized.
Vine-Leaf wrote:
I am thinking that the Router / Readyshare initially examines the drive and produces some sort of index. I am not claiming to know anyting about how this works.
It will of you have DLNA active.
Nothing massive though. 1.14 GB on my half full 4TB drive with ~750GB of music.
I determined that neither of the large WD drives worked. I looked at the netgear support site for the R7000 (https://kb.netgear.com/18985/Will-my-USB-drive-work-with-ReadySHARE)
Based on this I tried the Seagate - Backup Plus Hub 8TB External USB 3.0 (SRD0PV1) Plugged it in and after a while readyshare found it and made it available.
I will use my WD drive as a backup for the shared drive as an extra precaution.
I used the 3.0 front facing USB port. I plan to see if the drive will also connect from the USB 2 port on the back.